03-10-2006, 04:21 PM
Thank you Sridharji for your guidance. Actually, I confess that I am not quite connversant with the etiquettes of net messages. Neverthless, I would henceforth format my replies taking into account the tips you have given me.
Yes, Sridharji, I completely agree with you upon one thing. When a person is very much pre occupied with "Sampradaya" , The worship takes the back seat. A bit of salt - what you call ego - is also added with this obsession albeit unintentionally and rather unknowingly.
True to "Maduradhipather Akhilam Madhuram" every thing related to Lord Krishna is Sweet. And if you think of him, I feel only sweetness remains in your mind and the heart is filled with love of everything around you. That is his power.
Whenever I interact with another religious minded person, I try to understand the good things in him. Especially if he is a "Vaishnava" of any sampradaya for that matter, I like very much try to understand as to how they worship the Lord - in what sort of "Kainkarya" they r involved - "katha shravanam", "Katha Pravachanam","Kirthanam" ,"Nama Japam" ,"Parayanam" , "Chithra Lekanam" , (Even I have dedicated friends who enjoy writing the entire "Valmiki Ramayanam" or "Shrimad Bhagavatham"), "Bhagavatha Kainkaryam". The simple fact of even accidental meeting of "Sahurdaya Bhakthas" motivates you and it pours water and manure to your tree of "Bhakthi".
Kalidasa once said, what another person reacts to you is like prathibimba. That is he simply reacts in the same manner you have reacted to him.
If you search for "Bhakthi" in a person u interact with that is what you would get like a prathibimba. If you dont get it and you get something else , beware that what you get is not what he delivers suo motu, but rather what is your mindset.
Why I am saying this, all my earlier mentioned friends, they are devotees of the Lord. Even if they penned something which are not gentlem, may be by the time I was searching for some relgious piece in this forum, my mind may be in a rajasic mood, and I got and reacted to them, I humbly feel in the same mood. "Swadoshaparichayam" is better than "Doshaaropanam" for a devotee devoted to Lord.
If we concentrate on the sweet Krishna all else gets dissolved.
"Shrimad Bhagavathakyoyam Prathyaksha Krishna Evahi"
"Pibatha Bhagavatham rasamaalayam..........."
".............Yath Vaishnavanam Dhanam"
"Haraye nama ithyuchair muchyate sarva pathakath"
"Nama sankirthanam yasya sarva papa pranashanam
pranamo dhuka samanaha tam namami harim param"
what else I can add, the name of sweet krishna would give correct mindset so that I can better spend time in his praises rather than spend time in understanding the dry concepts of sampradaya or vedanta which are the domains of vidwans which neither i am nor wish to.
let me be blessed to be one among his devotees. or better to be one among those who serve his devotees.
Radhe Krishna
Yes, Sridharji, I completely agree with you upon one thing. When a person is very much pre occupied with "Sampradaya" , The worship takes the back seat. A bit of salt - what you call ego - is also added with this obsession albeit unintentionally and rather unknowingly.
True to "Maduradhipather Akhilam Madhuram" every thing related to Lord Krishna is Sweet. And if you think of him, I feel only sweetness remains in your mind and the heart is filled with love of everything around you. That is his power.
Whenever I interact with another religious minded person, I try to understand the good things in him. Especially if he is a "Vaishnava" of any sampradaya for that matter, I like very much try to understand as to how they worship the Lord - in what sort of "Kainkarya" they r involved - "katha shravanam", "Katha Pravachanam","Kirthanam" ,"Nama Japam" ,"Parayanam" , "Chithra Lekanam" , (Even I have dedicated friends who enjoy writing the entire "Valmiki Ramayanam" or "Shrimad Bhagavatham"), "Bhagavatha Kainkaryam". The simple fact of even accidental meeting of "Sahurdaya Bhakthas" motivates you and it pours water and manure to your tree of "Bhakthi".
Kalidasa once said, what another person reacts to you is like prathibimba. That is he simply reacts in the same manner you have reacted to him.
If you search for "Bhakthi" in a person u interact with that is what you would get like a prathibimba. If you dont get it and you get something else , beware that what you get is not what he delivers suo motu, but rather what is your mindset.
Why I am saying this, all my earlier mentioned friends, they are devotees of the Lord. Even if they penned something which are not gentlem, may be by the time I was searching for some relgious piece in this forum, my mind may be in a rajasic mood, and I got and reacted to them, I humbly feel in the same mood. "Swadoshaparichayam" is better than "Doshaaropanam" for a devotee devoted to Lord.
If we concentrate on the sweet Krishna all else gets dissolved.
"Shrimad Bhagavathakyoyam Prathyaksha Krishna Evahi"
"Pibatha Bhagavatham rasamaalayam..........."
".............Yath Vaishnavanam Dhanam"
"Haraye nama ithyuchair muchyate sarva pathakath"
"Nama sankirthanam yasya sarva papa pranashanam
pranamo dhuka samanaha tam namami harim param"
what else I can add, the name of sweet krishna would give correct mindset so that I can better spend time in his praises rather than spend time in understanding the dry concepts of sampradaya or vedanta which are the domains of vidwans which neither i am nor wish to.
let me be blessed to be one among his devotees. or better to be one among those who serve his devotees.
Radhe Krishna